![]() ![]() ![]() Goobie (winner of the CLA’s Young Adult Book Award for Before Wings) has taken this limited format of just 96 pages and created a first-rate YA novel. (The other, William Bell’s Death Wind, is equally as fast-paced but not as well realized.) Orca aims to publish eight to 10 of these plot-driven books a year by outstanding YA novelists. ![]() She discovers she has far more power over words and what they can do than she ever expected.īeth Goobie’s Sticks and Stones is one of two titles launching a new series for reluctant teen readers called Orca Soundings. ![]() For her English project about the power of words, she takes photographs of all the graffiti, then describes in words how these labels make people feel. Finally, Jujube decides to fight back and gain solidarity with all the girls who are called sluts. The final humiliation comes when she discovers terrible lies about her written on the school’s washroom walls. No matter how much she proclaims her innocence, Jujube is branded while her classmates – boys and girls alike – make jokes at her expense. Rumours start that 15-year-old Jujube Gelb is a slut after she goes to a school dance with a popular boy who’s got a fast reputation. ![]()
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